Each device port supports up to four SATA hard drives: A single Rocket 750 is capable of supporting up to 40 4TB 6Gb/s SATA disks, for an unprecedented 160TB of directed-attached storage. The industry-standard SFF-8087 Mini-SAS connectors streamline installation, upgrade and maintenance procedures and ensure maximum compatibility with industry standard storage cabling, accessories & chassis hardware.

HighPoint has long recognized the value of unified management services. While other affordable mass storage solutions make do with the operating system's default utilities, or the disk manufacturer storage related monitoring software, Rocket 750 HBA's include HighPoint's comprehensive management suite known as Intelligent Storage Health Manager (ISHM). This intuitive web-based interface is available for all major PC operating system platforms, and includes a wide selection of storage related monitoring and notification services.

ISHM allows administrators to instantly check the status of all hosted storage devices, including available capacity, the condition of individual drives, and the health of the Rocket 750 HBA. The built-in SMART monitoring service provides real time data for each individual SATA hard drive, and actively records all warnings errors, and hardware related failures associated with each device to the central Event Log.

ISHM allows administrators to login remotely via an internet connection or local network, and configure Email notification and alert services to keep abreast of changing storage conditions while in the field.

HighPoint has developed a series of software suites that allow professional solution providers to quickly and easily integrate the Rocket 750 into all major PC operating system platforms including Windows 2012, 2008, 2007, and 8, Linux Distributions, and FreeBSD.

The Rocket 750 will be available in April 2013 from our worldwide network of retail and distribution partners.

by: Batou1986I'm surprised pci2.0 8x doesn't bottleneck that but it is intended as a storage>speed solution.

Well, it would take only 5.3 6Gb/s devices to saturate PCI-E 2.0 x8. That said, few HDDs manage a sustained transfer speed over 200MB/s, which would allow for 20 drives before the bus is saturated, ideal for a 40-drive RAID 10 array with such drives.

by: AsRockUse part of the 40 HDDs as back up :).

Crazy cool.

Yeah, nobody's going to use 40 drives in RAID 0 or JBOD for anything important.

by: blibbaWell, it would take only 5.3 6Gb/s devices to saturate PCI-E 2.0 x8. That said, few HDDs manage a sustained transfer speed over 200MB/s, which would allow for 20 drives before the bus is saturated, ideal for a 40-drive RAID 10 array with such drives.

Yeah, nobody's going to use 40 drives in RAID 0 or JBOD for anything important.